Qualifikationsweite: 7,80 m
| 1 | Giovanni Evangelisti | ITA | 7,93 | Q |
| 2 | Dmitriy Bagryanov | URS | 7,90 | Q |
| 3 | Barrington Williams | GBR | 7,87 | Q |
| 4 | André Müller | GER | 7,76 | q |
| 5 | Angel Hernandez | ESP | 7,75 | q |
| 6 | Keith Talley | USA | 7,75 | q |
| 7 | Juan Ortiz | CUB | 7,74 | |
| 8 | Csaba Almasi | HUN | 7,71 | |
| 9 | Huang Gen | CHN | 7,57 | |
| 10 | Dimitrios Hadzoupoulos | GRE | 7,56 | |
| 11 | Frans Maas | NED | 7,45 | |
| 12 | Sizwe Mouli | SWZ | 7,07 | |
| 13 | Ricardo Valiente | PER | 6,83 |
| 1 | Jaime Jefferson | CUB | 8,10 | Q |
| 2 | Dietmar Haaf | GER | 8,10 | Q |
| 3 | Bogdan Tudor | ROM | 7,95 | Q |
| 4 | Konstantinos Koukodimos | GRE | 7,92 | Q |
| 5 | Vladimir Ochkan | URS | 7,84 | Q |
| 6 | Robert Zmelik | TCH | 7,83 | Q |
| 7 | Jesus Olivan | ESP | 7,69 | |
| 8 | Llewellyn Starks | USA | 7,65 | |
| 9 | Chen Zunrong | CHN | 7,57 | |
| 10 | Ayodele Aladefa | NGR | 7,47 | |
| 11 | Fred Salle | CMR | 7,11 | |
| Ian James | CAN | NM |